how does a cd burner get installed and what is the best brand and lets talk price?

Answer 1

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/cdrom/index.html and lg makes a good burner check the sales and discount websites for good prices

Answer 2

#1 the Cd burner is installed when It is put into the computer. The drives are all auto recognized by any os.

#2 Lite-On, Pioneer, Sony, Plextor.
The first three are all pretty good, I have only used the first 2 personally but some of my friends have a Sony. Plextor is like the industrial grade, but cost nearly twice of the others.

#3Price $25-35 for a CD burner $25 being OEM with no cables and CD's. $28 is right for a Lite-On CD-burner,retail, that means with an oem burning software.
I spent $38 last month for my DVD-burner from Lite-on so if you ever plan on doing DVD's in the future it might be a worthwhile investment. BUT find a drive with one of those brands and take the model number and look for reviews. Even these respectable companies have a few bad batches. I'm sending my CD-burner back this week, its a Lite-On and it lasted 8-months, still its free warranty replacement. Also check with where you buy it on their warranties.

One last thing OEM means just the drive no cables no driver disk no retail warranty (OEM warranty usually 30-days), no nothing,
Retail means driver cd (burning software is the driver it still reads without anything), and usually a aux sound cable, and some paperwork and a nice box.

Answer 3

For a laptop you would be better served by a usb or firewire external cd/dvd burner,as you could also use it with a desktop or a boot drive.Plextor is the best and most expensive and will read the most file types. A less expensive drive will probably suit also.